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Summary: Humorous and whopping good Sci-Fi
Review: This book is humorous as other Pohl novels (although this is a bit more light-hearted as well). The novel takes place in a nearish-future world, where the US and Russia pretty much left each other defenseless after years of warring; because they no longer had defense, and other countries were affected too, the densely populated China and India took over the world easily (in a non-ridiculous kind of way).Thus the stage is set; I don't feel like just ripping of the back of the book's summary so I'll just say this: Pohl's humorous touch adds spice to this Sci-fi novel with an interesting look on the future. The back cover said it's also an important message to mankind, but I don't know... judge for yourself, if you can find this book at a used bookseller. Four stars, because I don't want to give it a "perfect rating."
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Summary: Fanciful Sci-Fi
Review: This was one of the first sci-fi's I read as a child, and it whet my voracity for the genre. The scenario was plausible at the time of its writing (1980's), and depicts a post-apocalyptic world in which Communist China and India are the world powers. An unexpected plot twist juxtaposes an idealized remnant of American civilization with the reality of the post-war Earth.
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